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Web scale: what and why. Dublin, Oh. 20 Oct 08. Lorcan Dempsey. Reductive. Jokes. Part 1. A historical perspective. Licensed journal literature. Resource sharing. Cataloging. Consortial. The world is speeding up. Webscale. The web is all about scale, finding
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Web scale: what and why Dublin, Oh 20 Oct 08 Lorcan Dempsey
Reductive Jokes
Part 1 A historical perspective
Licensed journal literature Resource sharing Cataloging Consortial
Webscale The web is all about scale, finding ways to attract the most users for centralized resources, spreading those costs over larger and larger audiences as the technology gets more and more capable. Chris Anderson
Webscale On average, businesses spend 70% of their time building and maintaining and worrying about infrastructure, and 30% of their time focused on the ideas that propel their business forward. Web-scale computing is helping to invert the 70/30 ratio, enabling you to spend your energy creating the difference that will make your business successful. Amazon
Concentration through platforms Management infrastructure End user Google Yahoo Amazon eBay Realtor.com IMDB F… B…. • ADP • UPS • Salesforce.com • eBay, Yahoo, … • S3, EC2 • Realtor.com Vertical disintegration and specializationB-B-C
Concentration Scale matters Data WEB 2.0? Diffusion Spread matters Syndication
Part 3 Webscale
Webscale The web allows organizations to create scale (through the concentration of computer resources, applications or data) and to deliver the benefits of that scale to large numbers of other users through the web. Gravitational attraction … Data aggregation and contribution … Platform and network effects …
Management infrastructure • Network services
ERM/ Knowledge base Shared discovery Layer ??? Repository? User environments Projection gathering Licensed journal literature Consortial Cataloging Resource sharing Platforms Data aggregation Network Capacity building Local workflows and integration
User environments Projection gathering Worldcat.org Worldcat local Worldcat API Platforms Data aggregation Network Capacity building Worldcat Registries Worldcat resource sharing Network enabled workflows Across P and E Generate network effects by sharing data Use registries Local workflows and integration
OCLC OCLC exists to create systemwide efficiencies in the management of libraries and to increase their impact in compelling user environments. The key to each of these goals in a web environment is scale and the delivery of the benefits of scale to as many libraries and library users as possible.